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Chandra Rathina

Fremont,CA

Summary

Engineering Lead with 5+ years experience in building high-performing teams and helping engineers grow in
their careers and create impact in the organization. Seasoned software engineer with 10+ years of software
development experience in building high-performance large-scale distributed systems and has a track record of
delivering products and enterprise solutions. Strong in object oriented concepts, backend, design patterns and
performance optimization principles.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Lead

Motive Technologies Inc
05.2019 - Current
  • Manage a distributed team of 30+ Backend Engineers, Senior managers, Engineering managers and 2 Tech-Lead managers: Manage multiple major product features in the 120M+ Motive Dashcam business, created the impact on the revenue, saving costs and led engineering reliability efforts.
  • Career Growth & Recruiting: Managed to grow the 10-member Backend team to 30+ member team in last 3+ years. Expertise in building teams from 0-1, created the India Engg team from 1-10+ in last 2years. Actively works with Recruiters, conducts debrief for senior engineers, EMs & recruiting bar raisers to the team.
  • Team player and Leadership: Responsible for mentoring my direct reports which include senior EMs, EMs & TLMs, TLs. Highly engaged in designing the technical architecture, code reviews, product roadmaps, overseeing sprint metrics & providing growth feedback to guarantee stable & timely product releases.
  • Technical Leadership: Design and architect the backend infrastructure to support the millions of requests from the IoT
    Devices per day. Mentored the team in building the high-throughout API platform to serve our 500K+ Truck
    driver community. Led initiatives in breaking the monolith from Ruby-on-rails and moved to Microservices
    architecture implemented in Golang, K8s & deployed in AWS Cloud.

Tech Lead Manager

Twitter Inc.
San Francisco, CA
09.2013 - 04.2019
  • Billing Systems: Billing system is a set of services that is responsible for end-to-end billing of advertisers,
    agencies and SMB. This system is responsible for receiving engagements, consolidating charges, generating invoices.
    Involved in efforts to scale different services of the billing system using sharding.
  • Reporting Platform: Developed a platform to build Reporting dashboards for internal teams at Twitter using
    AngularJS, real time financial reporting tool with drill-down, pivot and other dynamic SQL building capabilities in
    the front end.
  • API Infra: Involved in developing services and API endpoints for various integrations with other Financial and
    Sales systems. Proven expertise in identifying and resolving several code and design issues, which would have
    otherwise been critical revenue impacting bugs in production.

Tech Lead

Oracle
04.2005 - 09.2012

Enterprise Financial Systems: Designed the scalable distributed systems for the oracle financial products.
Developed Entity relationship design, wireframes and data flow diagrams. Experience in performance tuning,
database sharding, analyzing heap dumps. Expert in SQL tuning, explain plans to understand the joins used and
good understanding of all database concepts

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Pondicherry Engineering College
Puducherry, India

Skills

  • Distributed Systems, Engineering Leadership, Conflict Resolution, Stakeholders management, Cost Analysis, Engineering Process improvement, System Design
  • Languages: SQL, GoLang, Ruby, Java
  • Technologies: AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Redis, Postgres, Oracle
  • Interests: Non-profit volunteering, Standup Comedy, Sports

Timeline

Engineering Lead

Motive Technologies Inc
05.2019 - Current

Tech Lead Manager

Twitter Inc.
09.2013 - 04.2019

Tech Lead

Oracle
04.2005 - 09.2012

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Pondicherry Engineering College
Chandra Rathina